Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys work their way through a dizzying maze of great hacks this week, bringing you along for the ride.
We take a look at simplifying home automation with Node-RED and marvel at the misuse of the SED — Linux’s stream editor for filtering and transforming text — to find your way through a maze. Have the hippest portable; grab your really old Apple laptop and stuff a not-so-old Apple desktop inside. We bring it on home with our love (or hate?) for the resistor color code.
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Direct download (60 MB or so.)
Episode 050 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- Mike’s been playing with Node-Red
- Guide: Automate Your Life With Node-RED (Plus A Dash Of MQTT)
- Great example project: Node-RED Laser Shooting Gallery Goes Anywhere
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Maze Solving Via Text Editing
- Retro PowerBook Gets A Mac Mini Transplant
- What To Know When Buying Chips That Haven’t Been Made For Three Decades
- Plucky Kalimba Plays Itself
- Make A Mean-Sounding Synth From Average Components
- Printed Separator Separates Printed Pages
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Mike’s Picks:
I’ve been listening since episode 0. The only one I’ve missed is the briefly available “error” episode from last week. Gotta be quicker.
Not saying that it’ll never happen again, but shoot me an e-mail and I’ll see if I can grab you one next Thursday. :)
Just thought I would tell you that since episode 0 I have listened to every episode within 2 weeks of its release. In fact, I work from home on Fridays, and have made a tradition of listening to your Podcast with my adult daughter on Friday mornings. We enjoy listening to the hacks, but the banter of smart technical people helps us feel connected to a community that is much bigger than we had realized. We’re huge fans. Thanks for your work on this.
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That’s fantastic.
And just for that heartwarming story, we’re going to have to do another 50.
Thanks for writing in, glad you’re both enjoying it!